This is what Prince Charles' goddaughter does with his Christmas presents

Put it on the mantle piece perhaps, or in pride of place on the book shelf – where all visitors can see it?

Well the Prince of Wales' goddaughter has a pretty unique place for storing his Christmas presents: the cellar.

Yes, you did read that correctly.

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India Hicks, confessed to storing 'years and years' worth of presents from the royal where absolutely no one could see them – not even her.

India Hicks

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She uploaded a slideshow of pictures to her Instagram which showed various Birthday and Christmas notes from her Godfather, alongside a lengthy caption which discussed the 'confusing' gravy dish she received from him when she was 8-years-old.

'That was probably the first time I remember receiving the thick cardboard box wrapped in brown paper, with an imposing purple ER stamp on it. Inside was lots of scratchy straw and inside that, when you dug deep, was a gravy dish, or a saucer, or a demitasse,' she went on to say.

India, who was also a bridesmaid at Prince Charles's wedding to Princess Diana. also revealed that she would rather have received an 'Adam Ant poster' over the expensive china from upmarket tableware shop Thomas Goode.

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The 49-year-old uncovered the gifts when she was packing everything up to move house. 'The mountain of Thomas Goode boxes have finally been brought up from the cellar, unwrapped, dusted off and put to use,' she wrote.

Personally, we'd love to uncover a pile of expensive crockery from a royal sender instead of a mountain of cobwebs and out-of-date mustard.